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The Maid of Buttermere
Melvyn Bragg
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Description for The Maid of Buttermere
Paperback. Melvyn Bragg's highly-acclaimed bestselling historical novel, the story behind one of the 19th century's greatest scandals. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 31. Weight in Grams: 330.
'This is historical fiction with a human face'
Peter Ackroyd, The Times
'A vivid and erudite tour de force'
Penelope Lively, Booker Prize-winning author of Moon Tiger
'A skilled, ornate and convincing examination of a nineteenth-century scandal in Bragg's own Cumbria'
Thomas Keneally, Booker Prize-winning author of Schindler's Ark
Set in the Lake District in the early nineteenth century, this is a riveting story of love and deception, and a scandal that shook the entire nation.
Product Details
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton United Kingdom
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780340423738
SKU
V9780340423738
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About Melvyn Bragg
Melvyn Bragg is a writer and broadcaster whose first novel, For Want of a Nail, was published in 1965. His novels since include The Maid of Buttermere, The Soldier's Return, A Son of War, Credo and Now is the Time, which won the Parliamentary Book Award for fiction in 2016. His books have also been awarded the Time/Life Silver Pen ... Read more
Reviews for The Maid of Buttermere
A vivid and erudite tour de force
Penelope Lively This is the story of an impostor and bigamist, a self-styled Colonel Hope, who travels to the North, where eventually he marries "The Maid of Buttermere", a young woman whose natural beauty inspired the dreams and confirmed the theories of various early nineteenth-century writers . . . It is a ... Read more
Penelope Lively This is the story of an impostor and bigamist, a self-styled Colonel Hope, who travels to the North, where eventually he marries "The Maid of Buttermere", a young woman whose natural beauty inspired the dreams and confirmed the theories of various early nineteenth-century writers . . . It is a ... Read more